Recent versions of KDE4 allow for setting up the menubar via dbusmenu (options availabe: in application, on top of screen, button in titlebar, 3rd party application). I can't find this feature in Plasma 5, despite having libdbusmenu-qt for qt5 installed. Do I need something else? Do I have to look for it somewhere else? or has it simply not been implemented for Plasma 5 yet?

I asked about that on reddit a few days ago and one of the devs confirmed that it should work in plasma 5. The current builds of project neon do not have it configured in the builds, so it isn't available as an option. Hopefully it will become available after the full release.

Thanks. I'll wait for the RC tarballs to become available and try it again. What component is it in, plasma-workspace, I suppose?

Edit:
It seems Gentoo does compile plasma-workspace with dbusmenu support. But I can't find it in systemsettings. Has it changed location? If someone could tell me how to check that all the necessary bits are there, that'd be great.

If I had to guess, do you have appmenu installed? I believe there is now an appmenu-qt5 available, so you might need that in addition to the standard cadre of packages.

I don't think so, since appmenu-qt wasn't necessary to get it working it KDE4

I asked the maintainer of the plasma-workspace-git on arch and he said that the setting is disabled upstream for now. Whether this is re-enabled before the full release or not is something the devs would have to answer.

Is it possible to forcibly enable this during compile time?

I just upgraded my Kubuntu from 14.10 to 15.04 and now I can't access Kdevelop's menu. I use Kdevelop for every day work so now I'm in trouble.

Before upgrade I had it configured to put the menu button on app's title bar, but after upgrade I found that there is no menu button anymore and I can't find the setting.

Installed appmenu-qt5: no setting and no menu button; removed appmenu-qt: no setting, no menu button; removed both appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5: now KDE 5 apps have menu but Kdevelop has no menu.

How can I get Kdevelop's menu back ?

Will this feature be removed ? will we be forced to have a menu bar again and loss screen space ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I fixed this problem by editing ~/.kde/share/config/kdeveloprc and removing all appearences of MenuBar=Disabled.

Still, is a shame we have lost the menu button on title bar. Is sad to waste screen real estate on a menu bar.

jaimesilva wrote:I just upgraded my Kubuntu from 14.10 to 15.04 and now I can't access Kdevelop's menu. I use Kdevelop for every day work so now I'm in trouble.

Before upgrade I had it configured to put the menu button on app's title bar, but after upgrade I found that there is no menu button anymore and I can't find the setting.

Installed appmenu-qt5: no setting and no menu button; removed appmenu-qt: no setting, no menu button; removed both appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5: now KDE 5 apps have menu but Kdevelop has no menu.

How can I get Kdevelop's menu back ?

Will this feature be removed ? will we be forced to have a menu bar again and loss screen space ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I haven't seen any official statement about it, but I assume it is disabled because libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.3, which is the first version to offer qt5 support in dbusmenu, has not been released yet. Since this could mean API/ABI changes, sudden breakage with new snapshots of libdbusmenu is possible so it is not included in stable versions of plasma. But it should be possible to forcibly enable this feature during compile time.

any news on this theme? im comming from ubuntu and i really miss global menu :/

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